AI News Archive: May 17, 2026 — Part 2
Sourced from 500+ daily AI sources, scored by relevance.
- For Eclipse, the $2.5B Cerebras win is just the start of realizing its physical-world thesis
Investing in the real world was lonely for Lior Susan 10 years ago. Now his firm finds itself at the center of the tech world's action.
- Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating
Not a great sign. The post Princeton in Shambles Over AI Cheating appeared first on Futurism .
- SAP Positions Itself As The AI Governance Company
Anthropic kicked off the SaaS Apocalypse when they showed that enterprise applications could be cheaply and quickly built. Now, Anthropic is endorsing SAP's approach.
Score: 51🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2026/05/17/sap-says-it-is-an-ai-company/ - Siri is years late to the AI party, but it’s iOS 27 overhaul could still be a beta experience
Apple may launch its redesigned AI-powered Siri in iOS 27 as a beta feature, even after delays reportedly pushed the project back by nearly two years.
- UAE to work with China to reshape future of education using AI
UAE to work with China to reshape future of education using AI Gulf News
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://gulfnews.com/uae/education/uae-to-work-with-china-to-reshape-future-of-education-using-ai-1.500543686 - Meet the Nvidias of power — 5 stocks winning Big Tech’s $700 billion AI energy grab
Infrastructure giants such as GE Vernova and Bloom Energy are the new gatekeepers of the AI grid.
- OpenAI merges ChatGPT and Codex under Greg Brockman. The side quests are over.
OpenAI co-founder and president Greg Brockman has permanently taken charge of the company’s product strategy, merging ChatGPT, Codex, and the developer API into a single product organisation. In an internal memo seen by Wired, Brockman wrote that OpenAI will “invest in a single agentic platform and to merge ChatGPT and Codex into one unified agentic […] This story continues at The Next Web
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://thenextweb.com/news/openai-brockman-chatgpt-codex-unified-agentic-platform - We’re launching the Google DeepMind Accelerator program in Asia Pacific to tackle environmental risks.
The Asia-Pacific region is a global engine for economic growth, but it's also highly vulnerable to climate change. While green technologies are gaining momentum, a recen…
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/google-deepmind/accelerator-ai-for-the-planet/ - AI's insatiable appetite for electricity could revive a forsaken energy source
President Trump and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are working hard to keep coal alive as part of a robust grid.
Score: 50🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/17/cramer-ais-appetite-for-electricity-could-revive-a-forsaken-energy-.html - Goldman Sachs warns AI-fueled market rally is becoming ‘one big trade’
Goldman Sachs warns AI-fueled market rally is becoming ‘one big trade’
- AI Agents Can Be Readily Turned Into ‘Useful Idiots’ And Unwittingly Perform Devilish Acts
Humans are sometimes tricked into being useful idiots. The same can happen to AI. I explain how. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
- Eval engineering: The missing piece of agentic AI governance
As artificial intelligence agents become more powerful, agentic AI governance becomes increasingly important – and yet, today’s governance solutions struggle to keep AI agents from going off the rails. In my last article in this series, I discussed the state of the art for keeping agents on the rails: multiple diverse adversarial validators with multilayer […] The post Eval engineering: The missing piece of agentic AI governance appeared first on SiliconANGLE .
Score: 48🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://siliconangle.com/2026/05/17/eval-engineering-missing-piece-agentic-ai-governance/ - AI Tools Are Rewriting Business Security and Not in a Good Way
The fastest way to scale with AI is also the fastest way to leak your data.
Score: 48🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.inc.com/heather-wilde/ai-tools-are-rewriting-business-security-and-not-in-a-good-way/91342628 - CCR Enhances AI and Climate Risk Capabilities Across Its Technology Suite as Global Disclosure Demands Increase
CCR Enhances AI and Climate Risk Capabilities Across Its Technology Suite as Global Disclosure Demands Increase azcentral.com and The Arizona Republic
- CSIRO launches new AI infrastructure to help robots and machines learn in real time
CSIRO launches new AI infrastructure to help robots and machines learn in real time csiro.au
- Why we’re at the beginning of the AI hardware boom | Caitlin Kalinowski (ex–OpenAI, Meta, Apple)
Listen now | Caitlin Kalinowski on supply chain vulnerabilities threaten the robotics revolution, why consumer VR failed, and what she learned building products at Apple, Meta, and OpenAI
- LLM Evals Are Based on Vibes — I Built the Missing Layer That Decides What Ships
Most LLM evaluation systems rely on vague scoring and human judgment disguised as metrics. I built a lightweight evaluation layer in pure Python that turns LLM outputs into reproducible decisions by separating attribution, specificity, and relevance—so hallucinations are caught before they reach production. The post LLM Evals Are Based on Vibes — I Built the Missing Layer That Decides What Ships appeared first on Towards Data Science .
Score: 48🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://towardsdatascience.com/llm-evals-are-based-on-vibes-i-built-the-missing-layer-that-decides-what-ships/ - Linus Torvalds says AI-powered bug hunters have made Linux security mailing list ‘almost entirely unmanageable’
Multiple researchers using the same tools to find the same bugs are creating ‘unnecessary pain and pointless work’
- OpenClaw creator burned through $1.3 million in OpenAI API tokens in a single month — bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests and 100 coding agents
The bill covered 603 billion tokens across 7.6 million requests, all generated by roughly 100 Codex instances.
- AI agents face trust issues in ‘high-risk’ industrial sectors: experts
China’s industrial sectors are racing to integrate artificial intelligence to boost efficiency, bolstered by state support, but experts warn that critical vertical markets – such as healthcare and aerospace – may be too “high risk” for the shift towards autonomous agents. Hailed as the driver of a “fourth industrial revolution”, AI is shifting away from chatbots to agentic AI – systems capable of independent execution within a workflow, industry experts said at the International Data Corporation...
- Citadel CEO Ken Griffin was a prominent AI skeptic. Now he says, 'AI is real.'
Citadel CEO Ken Griffin was a prominent AI skeptic. Now he says, 'AI is real.' Business Insider
Score: 47🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.businessinsider.com/ken-griffin-citadel-ai-skeptic-changes-tune-hype-jobs-finance-2026-5 - Ping-Pong Robot Defeats Elite Human Player video
Sony's Project Ace has created the first robot to beat an elite human table tennis player, with nine cameras analyzing spin and tracking the ball in real time.
- Voice AI Systems Are Vulnerable to Hidden Audio Attacks
Research shows sounds unheard by human ears can hijack models’ behavior
- TechCrunch Mobility: The AI skills arms race is coming for automotive
Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation.
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/17/techcrunch-mobility-the-ai-skills-arms-race-is-coming-for-automotive/ - UAE deploys 50 AI-powered traffic monitoring stations across federal roads
UAE deploys 50 AI-powered traffic monitoring stations across federal roads Gulf News
- Can Photonics Make the AI Data Center Boom More Palatable?
Can Photonics Make the AI Data Center Boom More Palatable? PCMag
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.pcmag.com/news/can-photonics-make-the-ai-data-center-boom-more-palatable - ‘Smart fleet management cuts fuel costs by 30 percent’
With pump prices still high, logistics-dependent businesses should invest in fleet management solutions to cut operational strain and reduce fuel costs by up to 30 percent, according to global technology firm Cartrack.
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.philstar.com/business/2026/05/18/2528622/smart-fleet-management-cuts-fuel-costs-30-percent - CtrlS Hyderabad Datacenter Hosts BharathCloud’s First AI-Ready Sovereign Cloud Centre
BharathCloud, an Indian AI-ready cloud services provider, launched BharathCloud’s first Cloud Centre at CtrlS Datacenters’ Hyderabad DC1 facility, marking an important step in strengthening India’s sovereign and AI-ready digital infrastructure ecosystem. JLL, the largest international property consulting firm in India, served as the exclusive advisor for the transaction in which BharathCloud established its datacentre ecosystem. […] The post CtrlS Hyderabad Datacenter Hosts BharathCloud’s First AI-Ready Sovereign Cloud Centre appeared first on CXOToday.com .
- It is ingenuity, not theft, that makes Chinese AI great
Last month, John Moolenaar, chair of the House Select Committee on China, accused China of being “willing to buy what they can, and steal what they cannot, to advance their AI ambitions”. Experts were then invited to share their opinions to support the committee’s claims. It’s an old Washington playbook. Whenever China gets ahead in something, whether it’s rocket launch capabilities or winning too many Olympic gold medals, it can only do so by cheating or stealing! Of course, everyone cheats and...
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3353880/it-ingenuity-not-theft-makes-chinese-ai-great?utm_source=rss_feed - New math benchmark reveals AI models confidently solve problems that have no solution
A consortium of 64 mathematicians built SOOHAK, a new AI benchmark with 439 handwritten tasks, including 99 that are deliberately unsolvable. Google's Gemini 3 Pro leads on research-level problems at 30 percent. But no model cracks 50 percent on spotting broken tasks. More compute makes models better at solving. It doesn't improve them at admitting a problem has no answer. SOOHAK tries to pin down the gap between a few flashy results and the broad research skills AI systems still lack. The article New math benchmark reveals AI models confidently solve problems that have no solution appeared first on The Decoder .
Score: 45🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://the-decoder.com/new-math-benchmark-reveals-ai-models-confidently-solve-problems-that-have-no-solution/ - Alberta teachers vote to oppose AI tools in the classroom
Alberta teachers vote to oppose AI tools in the classroom CBC
- Report: Apple to upgrade Genmoji in iOS 27 with new automatic suggestions
According to the Power On newsletter from Mark Gurman , Apple is planning an interesting new Genmoji feature in iOS 27 to bolster its usage: suggested Genmoji’s based on your photo library and keyboard history. more…
Score: 44🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://9to5mac.com/2026/05/17/report-apple-to-upgrade-genmoji-in-ios-27-with-new-automatic-suggestions/ - From railroads to AI data centers: How America's land booms follow the same script
Capital arrives first, governance follows later, and a few dominant players capture the spoils in every major American land rush
Score: 44🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://qz.com/us-land-booms-railroads-mining-highways-data-centers-051326 - China’s Unitree unveils a rideable, wall-smashing robot straight out of science fiction
A Chinese robotics company has started selling a giant pilotable robot. It costs €500,000, walks on two legs, and can also smash through walls. Welcome to the future?
- Agent harnesses, like OpenClaw, are changing how we build and run AI models
Ride your bots further by putting them in a harness
- Understood: Artificial Intimacy
Understood: Artificial Intimacy CBC
- Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs
Vercel Labs Introduces Zero, a Systems Programming Language Designed So AI Agents Can Read, Repair, and Ship Native Programs MarkTechPost
- Baidu Q1 preview: AI cloud growth, Kunlunxin IPO to be in focus
Baidu Q1 preview: AI cloud growth, Kunlunxin IPO to be in focus
- Overseas dream gets tougher as AI, immigration curbs hit entry-level jobs
Across multiple countries, companies are also becoming more cautious about sponsorships due to localisation pressures, economic uncertainty, and geopolitical factors
- Say hello to the new class of AI jobs
Say hello to the new class of AI jobs Business Insider
- Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find
"Without collective voice, 'merit' becomes whatever management says it is." The post Being a Crappy Boss to AI Chatbots Pushes Them Toward Spouting Marxist Rhetoric and Organizing With Their Compatriots, Researchers Find appeared first on Futurism .
- People overestimate how confident AI systems are in their responses, experiments reveal
Artificial intelligence (AI) systems, particularly conversational agents such as ChatGPT or Gemini, are now used daily by a growing number of people worldwide. While many users trust the answers of AI agents to their queries, these are not always accurate and reliable.
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://phys.org/news/2026-05-people-overestimate-confident-ai-responses.html - AI Wearables Are Coming. But They’ll Need to Pass This Crucial Coffee Shop Test to Survive
Using a laptop or smartphone in public has long since become the norm. But AI wearables face a unique challenge.
- The AI risk of losing the skills you’ve mastered over the years
The AI risk of losing the skills you’ve mastered over the years The Straits Times
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/the-ai-risk-of-losing-the-skills-youve-mastered-over-the-years - Thailand Approves $29 Billion Investment Wave as Data Center Demand Surges
Thailand Approves $29 Billion Investment Wave as Data Center Demand Surges USA Today
- Will AI Replace Teachers? It Depends On How They Teach
Will AI replace teachers or transform education? Experts explain how AI is changing classrooms, what roles are at risk and the future of teaching.
Score: 40🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.forbes.com/sites/sarahhernholm/article/will-ai-replace-teaching-jobs/ - One of the market's hottest stock themes is buying everything AI can't replace
The search for HALO stocks is a hot theme in the stock market. There is now an ETF to invest in it.
Score: 39🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/17/ai-stock-market-trade-halo-investing.html - Worried about AI, she's pivoted to comedy school. Inside Ontario students' scramble to 'future-proof' their careers
Worried about AI, she's pivoted to comedy school. Inside Ontario students' scramble to 'future-proof' their careers Toronto Star
- An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went
Let DJ Claude cook.
Score: 39🌐 MovesMay 17, 2026https://gizmodo.com/an-experiment-put-llms-in-charge-of-radio-stations-youll-never-guess-how-it-went-2000759327 - Why Ideogram stands out in the AI image boom
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools , a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. I rely on Ideogram, an AI image generator, to help me create posters, banners, social posts, newsletter illustrations, and video thumbnails. Context: Ideogram competes in an exploding market. Gemini’s new Nano Banana Pro makes remarkable infographics, ChatGPT’s image generator produces fantastic illustrations, and Canva, Adobe, and Midjourney keep getting stronger. Yet I still find myself returning often to Ideogram. 10 reasons I like Ideogram Your prompt gets automatically improved . Ideogram’s magic prompt algorithm refines your initial query. You can then approve it or revise. Choose from four options . Each time you submit a prompt, you get back four generated images. Getting to choose one gives you a bit of editorial input. Public image galleries are helpful for inspiration. Build on others’ prompts. Browse images of all shapes & styles, and top-rank